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Bozeman, Montana: Capital Of The New Unwild West?

As nature becomes a casualty to growth, cartoonist John Potter would take cows over condos, ranchers over realtors, and wildlife over the blight of "progress" any day. What about you?

"It's All Relative," a nature cartoon by John Potter—erstwhile a respected fine art painter of wildlife and Western landscapes—appears exclusively at Mountain Journal (mountainjournal.org) every week. The weekly cartoon is available for delayed syndicated reuse but only via express written consent and licensing from Mountain Journal. For more information, contact sarah@mountainjournal.org 

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About John Potter

MoJo cartoonist John Potter, creator of "It's All Relative," is, in his usual day job, a fine artist known for his paintings of western landscapes and wildlife. Raised on and off the Lac du Flambeau (Ojibwe) Indian Reservation in Wisconsin, Potter has art degrees from Utah State University and won awards for his illustration, including being a cartoonist for The Billings Gazette. To see more of Potter's paintings, go to John Potter Studio.
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